About David Clarke (Australian footballer, born 1952)
David E.
Clarke (born 31 December 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club.
Better known as a half-forward flanker he also played in the centre and centre half-back.
He won the club Best and Fairest three times and was runner-up four times.
Clarke was a director of the failed Geelong based Pyramid Building Society, which collapsed in 1990 with debts of A$2 billion.
He was charged with 13 breaches of the Building Societies Act and was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined $47,000 after pleading guilty.